Flashback: Bill Maher compares retarded children to dogs (January 11, 2001)

[SamuelB]

[faithnomore]

1. "Special Needs" vs. "Retarded"

What in hell is the goddamn difference? They both mean the same thing people.

[amuse bouche]

6. No kidding

People act as those with mental deficiencies should be worshiped.

Utter nonsense

[Quixote1818]

10. Yep, and kids use "Special Needs" to make fun just as much as "Retarded" now days

It won't matter what word you attach to people with the medical term Mental Retardation, because over time kids will hijack it and make it derogatory. So we will just have to keep finding new words to call Mental Retardation. Why not just call it what it is and what Doctors call it. "Retardation" and shorten it to Retarded? http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/mental-retardation

Not to mention Retarded is technically correct: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retarded


Just NEVER go FULL RETARD!

[wolfie001]

2. Reaching back into history and pulling this clip out.....

.....serves what purpose? Maher loves to rattle the cage? So what. Poster has an agenda. WTF! Oh noes, I'm so offended! Clutching my pearls! Give me a break. Let's ban a few more words and ostracize a bit more until everything is "perfect".

[alp227]

4. See these threads

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017125666

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023012744

[SamuelB]

7. I don't think it's any big deal when a comedian use the word ''retarded'', HOWEVER I

... find it to be absolutely disgusting when he compare handicapped children with dogs!

[Quixote1818]

11. Are you prejudice against dogs?

Just saying I think Maher's point is "what is wrong with dogs". Humans seem to think we are better than other animals. Well, maybe we are not. Are we better just because we are "smarter". What makes us better? A lot of people (not me) like animals more than humans. Anyway, I think this was his point. But YOU NEVER compare humans to animals who are less intelligent than US! We are amazing! WE ARE HUMANS! What a bunch of BS.

[Submariner]

3. 1/11/01 was only a month after a corrupt and partisan SCOTUS appointed an alcoholic mental-midget

as president, so the word retard was being thrown around loosely quite a bit then. Maher, version 2001, was just reflecting a common view of the disadvantaged among us using the language of the day.

[amuse bouche]

5. Bills a comedian and a truth teller

Don't like him? Don't watch him

I love the word retard/retrded and wish I could use it with impunity

[Enrique]

8. cruelty isn't truthfulness

if you use the word, you can hurt people. I'm glad there isn't impunity for that word.

[amuse bouche]

12. 'You can hurt people'

Hurt who and how exactly would they be hurt?

[drynberg]

13. "Retard" is the new "N word"

May you live long enough to regret your statements. Shame.

[amuse bouche]

15. Gibberish...you speaketh

slow......

[B Stieg]

9. He was so young then

[burnodo]

14. Weren't we all

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